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FIRECREST. 



FIBE-CEESTED KINGLET. FIEE-CBOWNED KINGLET. 

 FIBE-CBESTED WEEN. 



Regulus ignicapillus, JENYN?. MACQILLIVKAY. 



Sylvia ignicapilla, TEMMINCK. 



JRegulus A diminutive of Rex a, king. Ignicapillus. Ignis Fire. 



Capillus A head of hair. 



THIS closely-allied species, which M. Brehm was the first 

 to discriminate, is found in large forests in Germany, and 

 in Belgium, France, and Switzerland; Meyer says that it also 

 belongs to North America. 



The Rev. Leonard Jenyns first made known this bird as a 

 British one, having obtained a specimen in his garden at 

 Swaffham Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in the month of August, 

 1832. It was a young bird, and had therefore probably been 

 reared in the same neighbourhood. Since then Mr. J. E. 

 Gray has observed others at Brighton, in Sussex; one was 

 obtained also near Durham, and another was caught on the 

 rigging of a ship five miles out at sea, off the coast of 

 Norfolk, in the early part of October, 1836; another was 

 killed on the North Denes, near Yarmouth, the 6th. of 

 November, 1843; one was shot in the parish of St. Clement, 

 Cornwall, and Edward Hearle Rodd, Esq., of Penzance, says 

 in the 'Zoologist,' page 3753, that this species frequents that 

 neighbourhood, chiefly at Larrigan Valley, in greater or less 

 numbers every year about the beginning of December, and 

 that one was killed near Marazion in 1852. It has also 

 been met with in Sutherlandshire, by Mr. Bantock, the Duke 

 of Sutherland's gamekeeper. 



These birds frequent fir and other plantations, as well as 

 also larger trees. They too associate with the Titmice. They 



